Garrett SaundryDigital Influence Index identifies Canadians as social media savvy but cautious about information found online Study by Fleishman-Hillard Study Consumers across the globe are embracing the Internet as a primary source of information, but Canadians are unique in their use of digital and social media. The 2010 Digital Influence Index, released in Canada by Fleishman-Hillard…
Webnames.ca StaffThe first time I saw a QR Code was about a year ago on a photo of a realtor’s lawn sign that was posted on Flickr. I thought it was interesting but didn’t understand what a QR Code was or could do. It’s amazing what a year can do for the popularity of a piece…
Cybele NegrisIf you missed Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation at Vancouver’s F5 EXPO on April 7th, here’s a chance to participate in a second screening. Many people disagreed with Gladwell’s perspective on social media. His mile wide and inch deep philosophy may be accurate, but he failed to look at the benefits of a mile wide network…
Webnames.ca StaffA WordPress Newbie Sets up her First WordPress Website! Here at Webnames, we are bullish for WordPress. We’re helping any and all of our customers get their webhosting set up so it can take a WordPress install. My personal website was done in WordPress but I had the help of our web designer to get…
Webnames.ca StaffI do a lot of research on the trends in Social Media and where its future may lay. Professional marketers bang on and on about how it is time consuming for companies to be involved in social media with no clear return on investment. Large and small businesses are jumping into social media for more…
Cybele NegrisI don’t know of a single blogger who doesn’t want to improve their search engine optimization and page rank. The truth is that there is always something you can do! Here are 10 tips for boosting SEO – and all of them are straight forward things you can implement yourself. Start with writing great content that is…
JuliannaHere is a “big picture” look at what happened on the Internet in 2009. This data was gathered and reported on by the cool folks over at the Pingdom blog, Royal Pingdom. A complete list of the references for this data is available below, so attention stats junkies, get ready to bookmark! In the words of the people at Pingdom, “prepare…
Cybele NegrisCongratulations to Vancouver Sales and Social Media Experts Shane Gibson and Stephen Jagger on their new book “Sociable! How Social Media is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside-down.” Gibson and Jagger talk about using social media to create real relationships that impact individuals, businesses and community, having fun and being profitable. As they note in their…
JuliannaSo you’ve registered your domains. Score. You set them all up and made them appealing. Score. But do you know if anyone seeing them? Good question. There are some great ways to capture that feedback, and here are some of them: Counting Visits A simple 3rd party counter is often all it takes to make me feel…
Webnames.ca StaffDo you know that I have missed parties because I am not on Facebook?! I don’t get the invite and nobody thinks to email me or, heaven forbid, pick up the phone and call me to tell me about it. If people are spending their time working and connecting within Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc., is…
JuliannaA recent report published by Hitwise, a company that specializes in measuring activity on the Internet, sheds light on the search behaviors and browser preferences of Canadians. Deeming a successful search as “one where the consumer leaves the search engine after performing the search,” Hitwise found that Canadians have a 70% success rate on search engine…
JuliannaAs an avid user of computer technology, it is easy to forget how clumsy I was when I first had to handle a computer mouse. Over the last few years I have been having major trouble with my right arm from repetitive mouse use. Many people have suggested I switch hands to mouse with. I…
I loved you milkandcookies.com. Then I couldn’t access some of your content because I was Canadian. Pandora.com was a great music database until it also became deeply, deeply miffed that I was Canadian. Hulu.com and HBO.com don’t want me to watch any interesting television in case my polite Canadianism turns cynical and sarcastic. Now Skype has…
Garrett SaundrySo today is April 1st, which means a bevy of April Fools gags. This year we saw the Gmail Autopilot and the discontinuation of the Blackberry Storm and upside down Youtube to name a few. If you have been listening to the Internets lately, there’s also something big that’s supposed to be going on, and that’s…
Webnames.ca StaffThe Conficker worm, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is scheduled to activate on April 1, 2009; however the first series of infections attributed to the Conficker worm were detected back in November 2008. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computers on…
